Overalls.



Patented Apr. 2, |90l. EL. G. SANDERS.

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OVERALLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 671,059, dated April2, 1901. Application filed February 14, 1900. Serial No. 5,172. (Nomodel- To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD GOLLIDY SAN- DERS, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Chattanooga, in the county of Hamilton and State ofTennessee, have invented new and useful Overalls, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention relates to overalls; and the object f the same is toprovide a simple and effective means of padding or cushioning the kneeportions of the legs to alord ease and comfort to the wearer while in akneeling posture, the degree of padding or cushioning being removableand replaceable in whole or in part to accommodate various uses and alsoto reinforce the padding device and the portions of the legs and body ofthe overalls above the same and have said reinforce serve as the outerfaces of the front pockets.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts morefully hereinafter described and claimed.

the line 2 2 of Fig. l.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a pair of overallsembodying the features of the invention. Fig. 2 is a section on Fig. 3is a similar section showing the padding attachment distended by acushion-filling.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate correspondingparts in the several views.

The numeral l designates the upper body of the overalls, which isprovided with longitudinally-extending reinforced strips 2, secured atthe opposite side edges 3 to the material of the overalls beneath andhaving the upper terminals 4: unsecured to provide mouths for pockets 5,which are defined bya transverse stitching 6, and thereby Wholly locatedexteriorly of the material of the overalls over which the saidreinforces extend to avoid cutting such material and provide aconvenient means of forming the pockets. The reinforces 2 will be of thesame material as that from which the overalls are constructed, and asimilar thickness of like material will thus bound the front and rearportions of the pockets, and thereby make them stronger and capable ofwithstanding greater wear and tear. The said reinforce-strips 2 extenddownwardly over the knees of t'ne legs 7, and secured to their lowerextremities are `forced strips 2, and the lower extremities of thesaine, as well as the reinforced strips, are secured by lines ofstitches lO, which extend around the same to vertical lines ofbindingstitches 1l to thereby form a lower central permanent opening 12,which gives access to the pocket formed between the reinforcestrips 2beneath the quilted lengths and the adjacent portions of the legs 7.

For some kinds of work the quilted lengths S can be used alone and serveas means for preventing injury to the knees of the wearer of theoveralls while in a kneeling posture and also avoid the tiresome andofttimes painful sensation resulting from a long continuance of suchposition without interposed pads or other devices. In most instances,however, it will be better to insert a filling 13, as shown by Fig. 3,within the pocket formed beneath the quilting and provide k nee-padswhich may be increased or diminished at will by reason of the provisionof the permanent opening l2. The said opening permits the insertion orwithdrawal of the filling 13 to and from the pocket beneath the quiltedlengths and the reinforce-strips, and said quilting is thus preventedfrom becoming matted and can be replaced by new lling material at anytime or entirely removed to permit the overalls to be cleansed bywashing and which has been a great disadvantage in similar devices asheretofore constructed and wherein the filling was permanently inclosedand if removed required the disconnection of the parts forming thepockets and after attachment. It will also be observed that the strainor pull exerted on the overalls above the knees when the wearer is in akneeling position is distributed over a great length of the overalls andtaken up by the reinforced strips 2, thereby removing the straindirectly from the overalls themselves and rendering them more strong anddurable. It is also proposed to make the quilted lengths of materialwith an outer hard wearing-surface, or in the event that more than onethickness is used the outer layer may' be of hard or tough material andthe inner layer or layers of a softer nature.

The permanent opening 12 will be formed large enough to permit theinsertion or Withdrawal of the filling 13, but also prevent theaccidental working out therethrough of the said filling and which willresult from the position of the opening at the lower central portion ofthe quilted lengths andreinforce-strips.

It is obviously apparent that changes in the size, form, proportions,and minor details may be resorted to without in the least departing`from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of theinvention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new isl. A pairof overalls having strips of material over the knee-portions of the legsthereof completely exterior of the fabric of which said portions of theoveralls are formed and secured by lines of stitches at the sides andtransversely at points immediately above and below the said kneeportions to form pockets of which the said fabric of the overallsprovides the inner walls, a length of quilted material applied to theexterior surface of each strip and secured only by the lines of stitchesfor forming the pockets in said strips to reduce outer surface wear onthe pockets, each pocket having a reduced entrance which is permanentlyopen, and provided for the removable reception of padding, the reduceddimension of the entrance preventing the padding from accidentallyslipping out.

2. A pair of overalls having distinctly-defined pockets over the kneeportions exclusively having reduced entrances which are permanently openfor the introduction and removal of paddingr material.

3. A pair of overalls having distinctly-deined applied pockets over theknee portions of the material of which the overalls is made up, saidpockets having` reduced entrances which `remain permanently open for theintroduction and removal of padding material, andquilted reinforcescoeXtensive exclusively with the pockets and secured over the exteriorofthe latter to resist wear on the pockets.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afxed mysignature in the presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD GOLLDY SANDERS.

Witnesses:

E. P.- PURSE,

J. LU ALLEN.

